Crime is a bigger problem than it used to be. 

We have to do much more to avoid the frequent crimes that are occurring in our garage and the occasional unauthorized intrusions into our buildings. 

Our current Board has not wanted to even tell us when these crimes are occurring!  Instead, we have a flyer, from the CAA, posted on our bulleting boards, with recommendations on how to make our cars less likely to be targets.  That’s “passing the buck!”

Click here for the Police Report, to see how much crime has been occurring, just in our garage, our driveways and our outdoor parking.  Our current Board has traditionally neither informed us, the owners, of all the crimes that have been occurring nor have they done  anything to try to reduce the levels of criminal activity.  We pay for an overnight security guard service.  To the best of my knowledge, that service had only once been able to catch a crime in process and to get the police to respond quickly enough to catch criminals. 

We have lots of cameras.  The police won’t do anything unless and until there is physical violence against an individual.  Let’s hope that we create a better security plan before that happens!

We have to create a perimeter security plan, so that unwanted people cannot simply walk or drive through our 4 open driveways.

We have to look at lower cost technologies like parking lot-type of secure gates, in-car transponders, low-cost virtual attendants, license plate readers and gate activations from within our units (for visitors).  Here is an example of a company that reads license plates and can be connected to security gates and barriers, as part of a perimeter security system that does not depend on a manned security gate – https://www.flocksafety.com/use-cases/parking-lot-safety.

We must not have unsecured cabinets, in unsecured areas, holding realtors’ lock boxes.  These lockboxes contain FOBs for our security doors.  The picture below is of the one at the loading door of 115.  I did not open the cabinet – this is how I found it.  Two things to notice:  Only the bottom row if being used.  That’s because the upper row was stolen, 2-3 years ago.  Easy way for  crooks to get FOBs and apartment keys! Also note that there are 5 boxes, but only 2 units were for sale, when this picture was taken, on May 30, 2024.  I recommended that lockboxes must not be accessible in unsecured places, in 2022.  My recommendation was rejected.